CVE-2023-22940
In Splunk Enterprise versions below 8.1.13, 8.2.10, and 9.0.4, aliases of the ‘collect’ search processing language (SPL) command, including ‘summaryindex’, ‘sumindex’, ‘stash’,’ mcollect’, and ‘meventcollect’, were not designated as safeguarded commands. The commands could potentially allow for the exposing of data to a summary index that unprivileged users could access. The vulnerability requires a higher privileged user to initiate a request within their browser, and only affects instances with Splunk Web enabled.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.3 (v3.1)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (36th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2023-27042)
- Published
- February 14, 2023
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2023-27042 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on February 28, 2025.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- splunk / splunk
- splunk / splunk cloud platform
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Splunk Enterprise 8.1 - Splunk, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11108-2021 - archived
References
- https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2023-0210(Vendor Advisory)
- https://research.splunk.com/application/ee69374a-d27e-4136-adac-956a96ff60fd/(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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